From: David S. Miller (da...@davemloft.net) Sent: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:18:19 -0400
> > When there isn't memory pressure this will hurt performance of > course. > > It is a quite common paradigm to back down to 0 order memory requests > when higher order ones fail, so this isn't such a bad change from the > perspective. > > However, one negative about it is that when the system is under memory > stress it doesn't help at all to keep attemping high order allocations > when the system hasn't recovered yet. In fact, this can make it > worse. > Hello David, Do you think the patch should be modified to extend the length of time the 0 order memory requests with a time period of 1 minute for example? Or do you feel the patch is not the correct way this should be performed? Best regards, Jim
